The carrier transport properties under high field have been studied in Si MOSFETs experimentally from the following two points of view; velocity saturation and impact ionization. The electron and hole velocities in the inversion-layer were measured as a function of tangential electric field using high-resistive gate MOSFETs. It .has been found that the saturation velocity is dependent on the surface carrier concentration. The impact ionization rate was studied as a parameter of the length of the pinch-off region in MOSFETs. The suppression of the ionization rate and the enhancement of anisotropic impact ionization have been simultaneously observed at 81 K in the MOSFETs with the shorter length of pinch-off region. The non-stationary transport of hot carriers in the pinch-off region is responsible for these phenomena.
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